Friday, September 30, 2005

Pentagon analyst to plead guilty in Israeli espionage case

SFGate reports that the former Pentagon alayst charged with providing classified information to a powerful Israeli lobbying group is to plead guilty to one or more of the charges he faces:

Lawrence A. Franklin, 58, of Kearneysville, W.Va., was one of the Pentagon's policy experts on Iran and the Middle East. He was indicted in June on charges of disclosing national defense information to people not entitled to receive it, including two members of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. The indictment also alleges he leaked top secret information about two unidentified Middle Eastern officials to the media.